>What EXACTY do you think the U.S.HAS BEEN DOING in Iraq?
>Having a sunny day picnic? Liberating them from that evil dictator...
>...You know.... whathisname.
Trying to take the country over and run it as a neocolony. That would create a home to military bases, a new swing producer in the oil market, and a model for the neoliberalization of the Middle East. Problem is, invading the country fucked things up hopelessly. But it all makes imperial sense, even if the idiots in charge misjudged the risks. Destabilizing Iraq - which looks like a coals to Newcastle proposition right now - makes no fucking sense at all. Destabilizing Venezuela would make senese. Not Iraq.
Your point about specialists now eludes me. So it would take specialists to blow the place up. I don't even know if that's true (nor do you), but in any case, big deal.
Doug